Active Learning Activities

Active learning activities are tailored to specific learning outcomes and content. They incorporate one or more of the evidence-based strategies. Structured to expose their theoretical underpinnings, the activities can be used by practitioners and researchers alike.

Languages and Literature General Interdisciplinary

Students learn to apply the rules for integration, punctuation, referencing and formatting of direct quotes in their writing.

Applied arts

Students use visual thinking to diagram / illustrate a subject with the only criteria being they have expert knowledge of it.

Applied arts

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

Health science

Before class, students read an article and gather 5 elements. In class, they "pool" findings and sort into categories.

STEM Physics

This activity aims to bring about conceptual change by making explicit common misconceptions about the nature of science.

STEM Biology

In this activity students apply their knowledge of the physiology of the stress response to a real-life research scenario.

STEM Biochemistry

This activity benefits students by exposing them to literature in their field while preparing them for the following lecture.

Environmental science

In this activity, students learn to define sustainability and apply this to a single Montreal neighbourhood.

Languages and Literature

In this multiple-class activity, students write a “texte expressif”, applying theory & grammatical lessons learned in class.

STEM Biology

Students take the role of an ecologist and try to analyze species behaviours and predict population change.